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About the Role

As a QA Lead at Product Madness, you will drive strategic quality initiatives, partnering with Development, Product, and Build leaders to embed quality at scale, accelerate delivery confidence, and raise QA maturity. This is an opportunity to lead with impact, shape the direction of quality assurance, and contribute to large-scale QA outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead QA strategy across multiple teams and domains, aligned with product and engineering roadmaps.
• Establish and maintain a scalable quality operating model, including standards, guardrails, cadences, and governance.
• Lead cross-team initiatives to improve quality, velocity, collaboration, and predictability of releases.
• Represent QA in planning meetings, helping leadership make informed trade-offs based on risk and data.
• Build positive relationships with Engineering, Product, and Compose leadership to ensure quality is owned end-to-end.
• Develop scalable testing frameworks and strategies spanning API, UI, integration, and end-to-end layers.
• Champion full-stack quality practices to ensure seamless coverage from backend services to client experiences.
• Develop and carry out automation strategy and standards, including CI/CD quality integration.
• Evaluate, select, and implement new tools, methodologies, and automation approaches where they provide clear value.
• Lead root-cause analysis and quality retrospectives for high-impact issues, translating findings into systemic improvements.
• Implement risk-focused testing and deployment preparedness methods across teams, including entry/exit criteria, go/no-go, and rollback readiness.
• Mentor QA Team Leads and Senior QA Engineers, supporting career development and encouraging a culture of ownership and excellence.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional QA experience, including hands-on work in automation and/or test architecture.
• 3+ years leading QA teams or managing QA across multiple squads or projects.
• Demonstrated success in leading QA results across various teams and areas with quantifiable effects on quality, assurance in delivery, and speed.
• Extensive knowledge in comprehensive testing across full-stack environments, including API, UI, integration/E2E, and CI/CD integration.
• Good ability to define and implement risk-based testing and release readiness for complex releases.
• Demonstrated leadership presence and ability to influence multi-functional collaborators at senior levels.
• Good communication skills, including clear status updates, risk narratives, and data-driven recommendations.
• Track record of building scalable processes and tooling without heavy bureaucracy (“lightweight governance”).
• Experience in the gaming sector and/or live-service products is an advantage.
• Experience in QA transformation, organisational change, expanding quality methods, or establishing a QA function is a plus.
• Understanding of business impact and return on investment of quality initiatives is advantageous.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the job posting location for this position on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.

Skills

• Automation
• Test Architecture
• API Testing
• UI Testing
• Integration Testing
• End-to-End Testing
• CI/CD Integration
• Risk-Based Testing
• Release Readiness
• Process Building
• Tooling Implementation

Location

• London
• Barcelona
• Gdańsk
• Lviv
• Montreal
• Remote (USA)

Work Type

• Full-time
• Remote

Experience Level

• 7+ years of professional QA experience
• 3+ years leading QA teams or managing QA across multiple squads or projects
• Direct people management experience is strongly preferred for M2

About the Company

• Product Madness is committed to bringing happiness to life through the power of play.
• As a worldwide frontrunner in interactive entertainment and digital innovation, our mission is to build outstanding experiences that captivate and entertain millions of players worldwide.
• Our dynamic and inclusive culture encourages collaboration, innovation, and a steadfast pursuit of excellence.
• As part of the Aristocrat family, we share their mission of bringing joy to life through the power of play, with a world-class team who creates top-grossing, leading titles in the social casino genre, including Heart of Vegas, Lightning Link, Cashman Casino.
• With 800 team members across the globe, Product Madness is headquartered in London, with offices in Barcelona, Gdańsk, Lviv, Montreal and a remote team spanning the USA, making us a truly global powerhouse.
• We live by our People First principle.
• Regardless of where, when, or how they work, our team members have opportunities to elevate their careers, and grow alongside us.
• We take pride in fostering an inclusive culture, where our people are encouraged to be their very best, every day.
• In 2024, we made the Global Inspiring Workplace Awards list, and won a bronze award at the Stevies for Great Employers in the ‘Employer of the Year - Media and Entertainment’ category.
• Aristocrat Leisure Limited (Aristocrat) is a global entertainment and content creation company powered by technology to deliver world-leading casino and mobile games.
• Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Aristocrat (ASX code: ALL) is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with over 7300 employees working in more than 20 locations across the globe.
• Aristocrat offers a diverse range of products and services including electronic gaming machines, casino management systems, mobile games and online real money games, including iLottery.
• Aristocrat has seven corporate functions and three reporting segments that span regulated land-based gaming (Aristocrat Gaming), social casino (Product Madness) and regulated online real money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive).
• Our game and product portfolios collectively entertain millions of players worldwide every day.
• Across our global enterprise, Aristocrat aims to create long-term sustainable value for all stakeholders by upholding our core values and producing the world’s best gaming content.
• Our people-first mindset prioritises the safety and wellbeing of our people.
• We have ambitions to be an industry leader in responsible gameplay and we invest in employees’ development and offer career pathways, so they have what they need to do their best work at Aristocrat.
• Our values of Talent Unleashed, All About the Player, Collective Brilliance and Good Business, Good Citizen guide and inspire us every day.
• We are excited about the future of Aristocrat and united by our mission and we invite everyone to join us as we bring joy to life through the power of play!
• At Aristocrat, sustainability is embedded in our strategy, operations and the values and culture of our teams across the globe.

Equal Opportunity

• Aristocrat Leisure Limited or its affiliates worldwide provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to any protected characteristic, such as race, color, sex, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristic, pregnancy, breastfeeding or related medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic prohibited by local, state/provincial or federal law.
• If you need assistance or accommodation applying for a position, please reach out to helpdesk-recruiting@aristocrat.com.